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Towards rigorous and flexible research designs for personalized psychotherapy

Society of Clinical Psychology

Flexibility in terms of adaptation to different individuals seeking help at varying psychotherapy contexts. As clinical psychotherapists, we know about the dilemma that traditional research methods pose for everyday clinical practice. Methodological and clinical experts agreed on several advances.

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What’s on the Menu: A Scoping Review of Decision-Making in Modular Youth Psychotherapies

Society of Clinical Psychology

What if you could select from a menu to create an effective personalized “recipe” for treating each youth receiving psychotherapy? This personalization is an aim of modular youth psychotherapy, which provides a menu of treatment elements from which therapists select a distinctive combination and permutation for each child or adolescent.

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Compassion-Focused Therapy Strongly Improves Mental Health Outcomes: A Series of Meta-Analyses

Society of Clinical Psychology

But it doesn’t stop there; CFT has also ventured beyond clinical settings to promote mental well-being in the general public. Our study expanded on previous meta-analyses of CFT and provided valuable insights into the efficacy of CFT in numerous clinical and non-clinical populations. Target Article Petrocchi, N.,

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High Functioning Anxiety: Symptoms, Causes & Treatment 2023

Blurt It Out

In clinical practice, the term “high-functioning anxiety” is not formally recognized as an official diagnosis. People with OCD may feel compelled to perform specific actions, such as washing hands repeatedly or checking locks multiple times, to alleviate anxiety caused by their obsessive thoughts.

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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Youth Anxiety: An Overview and Future Directions

Society of Clinical Psychology

2015), although exposure use in community clinics remains low (Whiteside, Deacon, Benito, & Stewart, 2016). Both models have somewhat contradictory implications for clinical practice (e.g., Lesley Norris is a fourth-year doctoral student in the clinical psychology program at Temple University working with Dr. Philip Kendall.

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My Short Stay in a Mental Health Hospital

Beautiful Voyager

So, I called my psychiatrist’s office and got an answering machine from an evidently-open urgent care clinic. Like Thompson, they filled the day with activities that provided structure and predictability, the two things I needed as much as medication and psychotherapy. Clearly my husband wasn’t. Just call,” he insisted. I wondered.